The upright-walking creature grinned with a mouth full of banana-sized teeth, stood taller than a double-decker bus and weighed more than two standard-sized cars.

Brusatte said evidence of the 95-million-year-old theropod has been extremely hard to come by.

“The first remains of Carcharodontosaurus were found in the 1920s, but they only consisted of two teeth which have since been lost,” Brusatte said. “Other bits … were found in Egypt and described in the 1930s, but these were destroyed when Munich was bombed in 1944.”